Our Services

Strand Business Travel doesn’t just offer ticket booking–we provide a comprehensive range of services that take the hard work of arranging business travel off your shoulders. From making sure that documents go to the right people, to arranging passports and visas to travel insurance–we can help.

For single travellers to group bookings for conferences, we can provide a seamless service covering all your business travel needs.

Our service does not stop once our client arrives at the destination. Our investment in the latest technology and association with offices worldwide means that we have access to local information, helping to make business travel a pleasure.

• Worldwide air reservations

  Intense competition and changing alliances between air carriers can make it difficult for the traveller to determine the best choice and most economical journey for business travel.

  Using our expertise and international reservation systems we are able to provide you with direct access to all airlines, whilst ensuring a fast unbiased and accurate response to travel requests. We can cover all routing and carrier alternatives without deviating from your corporate travel policy. We can also get substantial savings for your company of up to 50% off First, Business and Economy class fares by sourcing other types of lower fares, where appropriate. In cases where your company has sufficient volume, we will negotiate special, reduced rates for frequently travelled routes.

• Executive aircraft and helicopter charter

  Where executive jets, air taxis or helicopters are required for specific projects, we are pleased to provide quotations and co-ordinate your requirements.

  We work closely with private aircraft brokers to ensure we offer a competitive and innovative solution for all your air charter needs.

• Worldwide hotel reservations

  Strand Business Travel Management will reserve accommodation for you at any hotel in the world.

  Our comprehensive corporate and preferred hotel room rate programme includes hotels ranging from international groups to personally owned and managed properties. In many cases, savings of up to 40% can be made on the standard hotel room rate.

• SelfÐdrive and chauffeurÐdriven car rental (UK & International)

  We can provide you with a range of discounted car hire rates throughout the world.

  In cases where your volume requirements are high, we will negotiate special exclusive terms for your company.

• Rail tickets (UK & International)

  As appointed agents for the UK Rail and Eurostar, we can provide an instant information and ticketing service in advance of travel, avoiding the queue at the ticket counter at the station.

  We are also in a position to offer advice and supply tickets for overseas rail journeys.

• Car ferry and EuroTunnel reservations

  As agents for all major ferry and hovercraft companies, we can offer advice on sea travel and provide a complete reservations and ticketing facility.

  We also act as agents for EuroTunnel and can reserve your cross-channel journey on your behalf.

• Conference and group travel organisation

  Our team of specialists can help you with all the components of groups, meetings and incentives travel, from destination research to on-site assistance.

  Our experience, reputation and relationships with suppliers in the hospitality industry give us tremendous negotiating and buying power, resulting in significant savings to your budget.

• Leisure travel booking service
• Incentive travel

  We have worked with many of our customers in planning and implementing incentive programmes.

  Incentive travel can be used to help achieve company objectives in both sales and productivity. Travel is considered the most effective reward for motivating teams and individual employees.

• Documents delivery

  We have a dedicated courier service that will deliver travel documents to your offices.

  Where it is not possible to deliver essential travel documentation by courier, we can arrange for these to be made available for collection at the most appropriate departure point. This can be particularly useful for “last minute bookings” where in many cases there is insufficient time to deliver the documents to the traveller.

• Travel insurance

  Through our relationship with various insurance companies, we can arrange comprehensive travel insurance for both business and personal trips.

  We are able to offer individual or annual company policies at extremely competitive premiums. Contact us for details and a quotation.

• Passport and visa procurement

  Our passport and visa service allows us to process both documents on your behalf, and assist with any emergencies that may arise.

• Emergency out of office hours reservation service

  We understand the realities of corporate travel. Last minute changes in schedules and unexpected meetings are a part of every day business.

  To provide you, our customer, with full out of hours support, we have a dedicated 24-hour emergency reservation service. With client-dedicated phone lines, you can be sure that no matter what, where or when, our highly trained agents will be familiar with your needs and policies.

• Tickets for theatre and special events

  We are able to source tickets for most London theatres, concerts and major sporting events.

  Through our worldwide associated offices, we can often assist in obtaining tickets for overseas theatres and special events.

• Management reporting

  It is often when travel and entertainment expenditure is increasing that it comes under scrutiny by senior management. Booking travel and entertainment on an ad-hoc, last-minute basis can be more costly in the long run, both in staff administration and availability of options.

  We can work with your Travel Manager to put together a long term view of your company’s travel requirements, based on travel history and forecast demand. We can then use this information to negotiate substantial discounts and preferential rates. Strand Business Travel Management can also provide Management Reports that help your managers to control such costs and ensure best practice:

  • Controlling travel and entertainment cost
  • Using the information to monitor and maintain a corporate policy
  • Ensuring travel polices are adhered to with out-of-policy reports
  • Comprehensive breakdown of travel and entertainment

  We can provide all reports in either Microsoft Excel or PDF format. They can be tailored to suit your requirements and to suit your individual company’s reporting timescales.

  Monitoring Expenditure Effectively

  With information provided from the reports your Travel Managers will be able to monitor expenditures and ensure that appropriate savings are being maintained within supplier relationships. Such management information can also highlight discrepancies or issues, assisting with continuous improvement of processes.

• Developing your travel policy

  Within most organisations today, managers responsible for travel are always looking for ways to ensure ‘best value for money’ when booking business travel and entertainment. Developing long-term business relationships with third party suppliers can make it easier for company personnel to book travel and entertainment at competitive rates. With economies of scale competitive discounts can be negotiated whilst maintaining the highest standard of quality.

  At Strand Business Travel Management we work with Travel Managers to develop policies that can provide guidelines to employees for booking travel. Such guidelines describe what the corporate travel policy is and how it benefits the company, with an explanation of penalties for nonÐcompliance. These guidelines can be made easily accessible to employees through a company Intranet.

  UK or International Policy?

  Each policy can be tailored to your company’s requirements–a global policy can mean different things for different companies. For a UK based company increasing its overseas travel, it may mean establishing new rules for air travel, hotel arrangements, rental cars and other travel expenses.

  For a multi-national firm, creating a global policy can mean consolidating multiple policies to improve negotiating ability and expense management worldwide. In either case, great care must be taken to address all travel and entertainment issues–local policies should reflect regional cultural differences, local laws and acceptable business practices, while a global policy should embrace expense management and the company’s corporate viewpoint on travel.

  For these reasons it is important to use specialists in Travel Policy Development. Strand Business Travel Management, with years of experience, have the expertise to work with you to configure a policy designed around your company’s needs.

• Airport parking

  We are able to make advance reservations for airport parking and chauffeur parking service at all major UK airports, helping to streamline your journey to the airline check-in desk. We can also arrange a chauffeur-driven service to the airport as an alternative.

  Contact us for our specially negotiated rates.

Additional Services

• Online reservation service

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